For the first
time since we launched Bitten by Kelley Armstrong, Random House Canada
is thrilled to announce the debut of a new urban fantasy series. Kristi
Charish's The Voodoo Killings introduces Kincaid Strange, not your average voodoo practitioner...

For
starters, she's only 27. Then there's the fact that she lives in
rain-soaked Seattle, which is not exactly Haiti. And she's broke. With
raising zombies outlawed throughout the continental USA, Kincaid has to
eke out a living running seances for university students with more money
than brains who are desperate for guitar lessons with the ghost of a
Seattle grunge rocker--who happens to be Kincaid's on-again, off-again
roommate.

Then a stray zombie turns up outside her neighbourhood
bar: Cameron Wight, an up-and-coming visual artist with no recollection
of how he died or who raised him. Not only is it dangerous for Kincaid
to be caught with an unauthorized zombie, she soon realizes he's tied to
a spate of murders: someone is targeting the zombies and voodoo
practitioners in Seattle's infamous Underground City, a paranormal hub.
When the police refuse to investigate, the City's oldest and foremost
zombie asks Kincaid to help. Raising ghosts and zombies is one thing,
but finding a murderer? She's broke, but she's not stupid.

And then she becomes the target...As the saying goes, when it rains it pours, especially in Seattle.

I'm a huge fan of Kristi Charish and love her Adventures Of Owl series so this sounds fantastic. Alas, to start with it looks like it's just a Canadian release but fingers crossed it will get picked elsewhere too.